COVID-19 has driven the need for timely evidence to inform decision-making. Rapid
evidence products can be particularly helpful for decision-makers (eg, citizens, patients …

Background Health policy-makers must often make decisions in compressed time frames
and with limited resources. Hence, rapid reviews have become a pragmatic alternative to …

Scoping reviewers often face challenges in the extraction, analysis, and presentation of
scoping review results. Using best-practice examples and drawing on the expertise of the …

The methods and results of systematic reviews should be reported in sufficient detail to allow
users to assess the trustworthiness and applicability of the review findings. The Preferred …

Background Systematic reviews are the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine. However,
systematic reviews are time consuming and there is growing demand to produce evidence …

Background Data extraction forms link systematic reviews with primary research and provide
the foundation for appraising, analysing, summarising and interpreting a body of evidence …

As many countries are developing policies addressing universal health coverage (UHC) and
the Sustainable Development Goals, there is increasing demand for relevant and …

The aim of the present work was to identify published methodological guidance for rapid
reviews (RRs) and to analyze the recommendations with regard to time‐saving measures. A …

Background Current text mining tools supporting abstract screening in systematic reviews
are not widely used, in part because they lack sensitivity and precision. We set out to …

Rapid review methodology aims to facilitate faster conduct of systematic reviews to meet the
needs of the decision‐maker, while also maintaining quality and credibility. This systematic …